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Excellent statement delivered today at @UCLA by @HankReichman with @uc_faculty about ULP by faculty asserting labor rights to protect free speech o campus. academeblog.org/2024/09/19/u…

Here is a 🧵 those interested in the gory details of the @UofCalifornia Regents' vote yesterday to provide "market based adjustments" to UC executives, while refusing similar adjustments for its workers. This adds to this morning's reporting by @TeresaWatanabe at @latimes.

Faculty from across the UC system — long synonymous with the Free Speech Movement — have filed a ULP to fight a systematic, illegal campaign conducted by UC to repress academic freedom. cucfa.org/2024/09/faculty-fi…

“We foresee this mandate being applied in ways that unnecessarily restrict protected speech..., resulting in both indefensible censorship and administrative discipline,” says @ACLU_CalAction in @theintercept article about SB 1287: theintercept.com/2024/08/13/…

Last year, the state legislature cut over a billion dollars in funding for CSUs and UCs related to campus expansion, student housing, de-carbonization, and other capital expenses. This year, even with a budget deficit, the state should hold the line against cutting the compact.

When you track California general fund spending on public higher education in relation to FTE undergraduate enrollment, you get a chart that shows a 20 year process of asking schools to do more with less. ($ is 2021 inflation adjusted)

California legislators are being presented with information that makes it look like they've been generous with public higher education funding recently. They do this by discussing budget separate from enrollment, and setting their baseline at the nadir in 2012, like this.

The latest, from The Council of UC Faculty Associations (union of faculty associations from all UC campuses, across all disciplines). "... it has become abundantly clear that several of these 'data science,' and even some statistics, courses do not actually satisfy Senate Regulation 428.C since they do not 'assume knowledge acquired' from Algebra II. This has been repeatedly examined and concluded by multiple parties... Though the Board has the ultimate authority to approve or disapprove Senate recommendations, it is difficult to understand why they would do so on this question of admission standards, on which they have little expertise." cucfa.org/2024/03/support-bo…